Boycotting Israel: To What End?

The U.N. has recently released a list of companies that do business in Israel under the guise of the movement to boycott such companies.  The U.N. has been a huge frustration for many years when it comes to their treatment of Israel.  While I've pulled back recently on my political social media posts, I'm all in when it comes to this.  Anyone who truly has talent the time to try to comprehend what is going on in the middle east, knows it's an impossible situation.  There is probably not another country in the entire world that has put up with more than Israel has.  If a neighboring country constantly lobbed missiles at the United States we'd wipe them off the face of the earth.  Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Need I say more.  We don't tolerate being attacked.  We fight back.  Yet, when missiles are lobbed at Israel, the world asks them to be restrained in their response.  And that brings us to the problem at hand, the Palestinian people.

In 1948, Israel declared itself to be a country.  The United Nations accepted Israel into the world of nations.  The surrounding Arab states immediately declared war on Israel and promised to push all the Jews into the sea.  Keep in mind, prior to 1948 the British "owned" the land that Israel sits on.  Prior to the British, it was the Turks.  There was an attempt by the U.N. to split the land into a Jewish State and a Palestinian state.  The neighboring countries and the Arab world in general, refused to accept that split.  It was either destroy Israel or never give up trying.  Here we are 72 years later, and the people living in Gaza and the West Bank are without a country.  Many times in the past 72 years, they could have just become a country.  However, doing so would have been inconvenient to the plan to destroy Israel and return the Palestinians to a country that never was.

Israel has a problem.  They have chosen to occupy the land that would have and could have been a Palestinian state.  What else are they going to do?  If they don't occupy the land, there will be more missiles and more suicide bombings.  And so this goes on.  The "world" complains that Israel is not treating the occupants of these lands properly.  What are they supposed to do?  If Israel just went ahead and gave them the autonomy to become a state, what promise would Israel have regarding its own security?  None.  If Israel annexes the lands, they suddenly become a country that is supposed to be the home of the Jewish people, but it would quickly become a majority muslim country.  By the way, what's wrong with being a Jewish homeland, when most of the surrounding Arab states are essentially Muslim homelands.  Why can't the Jewish people have a country to call our own.  I can think of 6 million reasons why this is reasonable.  The boycott should make no sense to anyone who takes the time to truly understand the history.